I love baking and decorating with chocolate. Many years ago before I started catering, I began a chocolate business, not quite knowing much about chocolate but learning along the way. After ordering …
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By Judy Joszef
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7/28/16
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The final pasuk of our parasha is somewhat difficult to understand: “Moses spoke to the children of Israel in accordance with all that the L-rd had commanded Moses.” (Sefer Bamidbar 30:1) …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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7/28/16
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Before Parshat Pinchas buries itself in the sacrificial order for each holiday (what becomes the Maftir reading for those days), we hear the story of Tzlafchad’s daughters. Without …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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7/28/16
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An Arab member of Knesset’s public support of a terrorist who murdered an American-Jewish peace activist led to the Knesset last week to enact a law that could, under difficult circumstances, …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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7/28/16
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We experience different levels of surprise and shock. Regardless of how intellectually internalized something is, once it takes place, it is a different story.
The radical Islamist ideology that …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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8/4/16
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South Nassau Communities Hospital has been certified as a Level II trauma center by the American College of Surgeons. On July 19 the Emergency Department demonstrated its …
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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8/4/16
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I agree with Cornel West. I never thought I would find myself writing those words. West, a leading African-American author and intellectual, is a vicious critic of Israel. He supports the …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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8/4/16
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The first of our two parshiot (Matot and Masei) contains a rather quizzical pasuk: “Eleazar the kohen said to the soldiers returning from battle, ‘This is the statute that the L-rd …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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8/4/16
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The listing of the travels of the Israelites in the wilderness finishes, in Parshas Masei, with these verses: “They left Almon Divlathaymah and camped in the Avarim mountains in front of Nebo. …
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By Avi Billet
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8/4/16
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My husband Jerry was living the life as a senior in BTA’s super garbage class in 1973. Things could not have been going better, as he was naturally fun-filled and irresponsible. Then, a …
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